Ship an InMail to your favourite goth in the present day and remind them of two issues: One, there’s only some (a number of) weeks of miserable sunny climate left in 2024 and two, Halloween is simply across the nook, and meaning the Black Lagoon cocktail pop-up occasion is coming again to Seattle.
This “immersive, creepy-as-hell” pop-up started its afterlife in 2021 in Toronto, North America’s spoo000okiest metropolis. It then unfold zombie plague–like throughout the continent and now in 35 cities. This yr in Seattle it’ll be at acclaimed Belltown bar Rob Roy, the place it was final yr, from October 2 to November 2.
Meaning Rob Roy will probably be totally remodeled for a month, decked out in Halloween-y decorations and stuffed with bartenders and clients in (in all probability fairly elaborate) costumes. That is for the Halloween Folks, you recognize if you’re one. And there will probably be drinks, in fact, just like the Memento Mori, which has mezcal, rum, espresso liqueur and chilly brew focus, Chinese language 5 spice bitters, and amontillado — which sounds just like the type of factor you drink earlier than you see ghosts.
Now for extra (non-spooky) information of the week:
Prime Pot Doughnuts returns to West Seattle
Prime Pot followers in West Seattle have had a tricky run of it since 2021, when the favored chain closed its Alki store (on the time the West Seattle Bridge was closed, making all the pieces tougher). However this week Prime Pot got here again to the neighborhood, reviews the Puget Sound Enterprise Journal, particularly California Avenue close to Alaska Avenue.
Free ice cream!
Even higher than free ice cream — free ice cream from the Pastry Venture, which doesn’t simply present coaching to aspiring pastry cooks and bakers dealing with obstacles to employment, it operates one of many metropolis’s greatest mushy serve home windows. This Friday (in the present day) it’s launching a collaboration with the Cone & Steiner grocery retailer for a sundae topped with crushed malt balls and scorching fudge. The primary 100 individuals in line (there’s normally a line) will get one free. The window (at 165 South Important Avenue) opens at 3 p.m.
Pike Place Market is placing on an Onion Pageant
Stick with us right here: In the summertime of 1907, there was a spike within the worth of onions, which went from 10 cents a pound to a greenback a pound shortly. Seattle Metropolis Councilman Thomas Revelle realized there was a legislation on the books permitting the town to create public markets the place farmers and shoppers might meet straight, reducing out the middlemen. That’s how Pike Place Market was born.
To honor that legacy — and rejoice its 117th birthday — Pike Place Market is throwing an Onion Pageant on August 14, the place the market’s common hours will probably be prolonged (the occasion runs from 3 to 7 p.m.) and a bunch of farmers will get collectively to promote onions and likewise a bunch of different goodies. That is a part of the Produce on Pike occasion sequence, and extra data could be discovered right here.
